Paul,
I would like to work for this as well if there are no objections from
the people.
I would like also to know if we can speculate about the audience who
will be reading this and if it should be aimed for those segments.
In addition in which format and support are we going to use it? Using
any support media?
nelson
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:46 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a
'whimsical' release
announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either,
and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong,
wrong! :-)
Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki
page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for
everywhere, including our mailing lists.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement

Sorry for the delay in catching this, quite the deluge today; That sounds
like a good plan, and I'm with ya on it! I've never really got the whimsical
edge when it comes to writing long things. I can be witty in short bursts,
but that is about it :)
Ryan
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On Tue 27 April 2010 1:46:31 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release
> announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either,
> and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong,
> wrong! :-)
>
> Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki
> page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for
> everywhere, including our mailing lists.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement
Sorry for the delay in catching this, quite the deluge today; That sounds
like a good plan, and I'm with ya on it! I've never really got the whimsical
edge when it comes to writing long things. I can be witty in short bursts,
but that is about it :)

Great. Anyone can help you and Rahul with this, Ryan.
The announcement should be simple and not overloaded with a lot of
general information about Fedora. Making the text TL;DR won't help us
much on the marketing front IMHO. So for instance, this is not a
place to write about the core values of the Fedora Project. The
announcement is similar to a press release and simply covers the
actual release of Fedora 13 and a selection of major changes since the
previous release.
The announcement goes out in a couple forms:
* our official announcement mailing lists in plaintext form, where
it's picked up by a lot of community press outlets
* linked from the Red Hat press blog
In service of the first bullet, I rearranged the text toward the end
to resemble a press release, with press contact info at the tail.
That should be where reporters generally look for that information,
since it's customary for formal press releases.
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